deep-rooted
See also: deeprooted
English edit
Adjective edit
- (literally, of a plant) Having deep roots; (of a non-living object) deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.).
- 1662, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England[1], London: Thomas Williams, page 186:
- He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;
- 1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193,[2]
- Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves,
- Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves;
- Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand,
- Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?
- 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302,[3]
- And now the flying bark full near approach’d,
- When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm
- Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became
- Deep-rooted stone.
- 1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth[4], New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 517:
- [His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.
- (figurative) Firmly established in thought or behaviour and difficult to change.
- Synonyms: ineradicable, bred-in-the-bone, deep-seated, deep-lying
- They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.
- 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty[6], London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:
- Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.
- 1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177,[7]
- Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch:
- 1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 14, in The God of Small Things[8], New York: Random House, page 263:
- “He may be very well okay as a person. But other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”
- 2022 March 9, “Network News: East London drainage work”, in RAIL, number 952, page 16:
- The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.
Translations edit
having deep roots
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firmly established
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References edit
- “deep-rooted”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.